It’s the last week now, isn’t it?
Colbert’s too (and I LOVE Colbert!!) but I’ll miss my lil wee after midnight fun (in Houston at least) .
Actually, I watch @midnight and then Craig. (If I’m still awake.)
I think Corden will be fine, but I will probably not be recording anymore.
Went to an interview last night with Craig at the Paley Center in LA… I"m going to miss his program, but he said “it was time”… His comparison was when Bowie suddenly ended Ziggy Stardust a long time ago. He was angry at Bowie for a long time, but he finally realized that Bowie felt it was time to change… and he couldn’t blame him…
The good thing was that he was Craig at his best - funny, self deprecating and introspective… Which I guess he had to be - his Executive Producer, his agent, the guy who was the voice of Geoff and Craig’s wife were all there… It seemed like about half the audience were people from CBS and the show… and then there were about 30 fans like me sitting at the back of the room mesmerized…
Loved listening him talk about how his life changed and how there were times when he was still starstruck… “Damn, I’m goofing around with Captain Kirk!”, or “Betty White knows who I am!”…
I think the interview is (or will be) up on the Paley Center website soon… Definitely worth a viewing…
Craig talked about that last night at the Paley Center… He said he wanted to be asked, and met all kinds of Who staff and Moffat at a comic con… but even though they loved his Doctor Who opening, they weren’t interested in him joining the show.
I agree with the OP; I’m finding Craig to be in top form in these last shows. I was a regular viewer years ago (such that I still find the extra phrase inserted into the theme song, sometime in the past few years, to be disconcerting).
I do like the addition of Geoffrey Peterson and am glad that Josh will be continuing to work with Craig. (Not that I object to Secretariat being included, but let’s face it, the two people inside the panto horse get less opportunity to shine!) Josh is quick-witted and deserves to be better-known.
I’ll miss knowing that this show is available to be seen. Though I understand that some object to the formulaic bits, for some of us those bits were enjoyable in their comforting familiarity.
Yeah, I’m a non-fan, too. For me Fallon is relentlessly smarmy and fake-sincere in a way that sets my teeth on edge. He does good song-parodies, though. I’ve heard that’s true of Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad, too, strangely enough. But of course they are very different. One is a brutal autocrat who makes nice with the press but actually bullies and exploits those who work for him, and the other is Bashar Al-Assad. 
I see you’ve seen the show once or twice. Now show me a picture of Paul McCartney! 
Here ya go!
Unfortunately, his photo is mislabeled. :rolleyes:
I know that I find myself fake-arguing over something silly with The Fella, I will often yell, “You’re a RACIST!” Why that still cracks me up everytime Craig yells that at the director (or whatever he is), I cannot figure out.
Poor Michael - what a long-suffering producer. And, of course, a well-known horrific racist.
You corrected me?..spluttering… you RACIST!
And the tweets and emails stuff:
My name is Scooter, I fix your computer
It’s still on the mantle over the “fire.” A nice tribute to a bit he hasn’t done in a while. (Maybe Angela complained…?)
For some reason the things I miss most are, first, his “fake host inviting you in” with a “Look at you!” (he does only an abbreviated version of it now); and second, the old, old intro to the “viewer mail”—and I think this was before Tweets were mentioned—in which the gag was “there’s no time to do viewer mail” and the video they played to tell us that there was no time to do viewer mail was about ten minutes long. (Okay, that’s an exaggeration.) I liked the kick-line of chimps in one of those videos.
Well, yes, I too am a well-known horrific racist.
It would have been awesome for him to have Paul McCartney and/or Angela Lansbury on in these last days. Oh well.
ETA: In a recent episode (from October, maybe? we’re a bit behind), Craig was talking about his paleo diet making him all calm and rational, and apparently Michael gave out a big hoot of laughter. Craig said that was the first genuine laugh out of Michael in the history of the show.
Ferguson’s the best thing on late nite. Knew he had the gift when they were doing the audition shows. Please come back on cable, Craigermeister!!
Reggie Watts has been hired to be the bandleader on the new show, which has me pretty stoked.
I hope the new show is even a tenth as literate as Craig’s show (and by the way, given the context, I’m deeply ashamed to have misspelled “mantel”…:()
Both on the same show, even!
It also would’ve been great to have George Clooney on so he could ask him what it’s like to work with all those people.
If they aren’t named Alfredo and the Shy Guys, I will be deeply, deeply disappointed.
We always enjoyed it when Craig’s intelligence and breadth of interests peeked out - he never made that the focus of the show, but he seems to be extremely smart and well-read. Just don’t get him started on Jungian psychology!
The new show will have a band? Is Craig Ferguson aware of this?
Craig tweeted today that he just filmed his final episode.
When does James Corden take over the gig? Corden is another celebrity whose career has “weird” written all over it. For Corden im predicting anything from unmitigated disaster to unrivaled success, or something in-between.